February 22, 2012 by Harsha Vadlamani in

I am an independent photojournalist based out of Bengaluru and Hyderabad, India.

In the summer of 2008, I quit an IT job at which I had worked for two years, and took up photography as a career. Over the next three years, I worked on commissioned projects documenting High Risk populations in HIV/AIDS interventions in southern India. Simultaneously, I pursued a Masters degree in journalism from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

This work resulted in several publications and greatly helped me understand small-town and rural India. I continue to work from these regions, with a focus on agrarian crises, issues of development and displacement, migration and urban assimilation, and the environment.

I am also the founder and curator of Galli, an online publication featuring visual storytelling from India.

Among the non-profits I worked with are Greenpeace India, Oxfam India, The Clinton Foundation, Teach for America, Worldvision India, HLFPPT, India HIV/AIDS Alliance, Public Health Foundation of India and Wadhwani Foundation.